This past January, it was rumored that Orphan Black’s criminally underrated star Tatiana Maslany was in the running for her own Star Wars movie. The role was ultimately nabbed byTheory of Everything breakout Felicity Jones, but it sounds as though the Disney and Lucasfilm folks like Maslany, as well as two of your other new favorite actresses, enough to consider inviting them to a galaxy far, far away.

Maslany is reportedly in the running with Gina Rodriguez, the charismatic, Golden Globe-winning star of CW’s gem Jane the Virgin, for the female lead in Rian Johnson’sStar Wars film Episode VIII, according to a new report by the Wrap.

Maslany and Rodriguez are said to be on a short list with Olivia Cooke, the Bates Motel actress who co-starred in this year’s Sundance Film Festival smash Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. All three worthy actresses are currently making the leap from television to film. Maslany played the younger version of Helen Mirren’s character in Woman in Black. Rodriguez, who broke out critically as the eponymous character in the Sundance hit, Filly Brown, is slated to co-star in the drama Deepwater Horizon with Mark Wahlberg. And Cooke co-stars as a teenage prostitute opposite Mireille Enos and Mary Steenburgen in the upcoming Katie Says Goodbye.

There is some discrepancy among the Wrap’s sources as to what casting stage the production is in exactly.

Insiders insist it’s early in the casting process and that Johnson is
still auditioning actresses, with several rising stars yet to read for
him. Others suggest that Johnson is narrowing down the field and that
Rodriguez, Maslany and Cooke will be among a group of girls slated to
chemistry-read with The Force Awakens star John Boyega before the
end of the month.

Although neither Disney nor LucasFilm have commented on the casting report, Rodriguez, a prolific Tweeter, has retweeted several of the reports, as well as this ingenious casting alternative: “[C]an't I have both @tatianamaslany and @HereIsGina in a Star Wars movie together? Do they have to choose?"

First Order officer Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie) surveys the rubble following an attack.

Photo: Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

A small galaxy’s worth of tracking dots affixed to Lupita Nyong’o’s face allowed artists at Industrial Light & Magic to transform her into the C.G.I. character Maz Kanata.

Photo: Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

Next-generation bad guy Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) commands snowtroopers loyal to the evil First Order on the frozen plains of their secret base.

Photo: Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

Actress Daisy Ridley for a scene in which her character, the young heroine Rey, pilots her speeder through a bustling marketplace on the planet Jakku.

Photo: Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

Members of the brain trust behind The Force Awakens: composer John Williams, producer and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, co-writer Lawrence Kasdan, and director and co-writer Abrams, photographed at Bad Robot, Abrams’s production company, in Santa Monica.

Photo: Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

Galactic travelers, smugglers, and other assorted riffraff fill the main hall of pirate Maz Kanata’s castle.

First Order officer Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie) surveys the rubble following an attack.

Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

A small galaxy’s worth of tracking dots affixed to Lupita Nyong’o’s face allowed artists at Industrial Light & Magic to transform her into the C.G.I. character Maz Kanata.

Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

Next-generation bad guy Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) commands snowtroopers loyal to the evil First Order on the frozen plains of their secret base.

Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

Actress Daisy Ridley for a scene in which her character, the young heroine Rey, pilots her speeder through a bustling marketplace on the planet Jakku.

Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

Members of the brain trust behind The Force Awakens: composer John Williams, producer and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy, co-writer Lawrence Kasdan, and director and co-writer Abrams, photographed at Bad Robot, Abrams’s production company, in Santa Monica.